Row 2724

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**Ministry of Public Security - State Security Department (SSD); June 2027**

As high-speed internet access proliferates across Laos, the government has had to adapt accordingly in order to preserve the leadership of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party. The State Security Department has had to increase its capacity to censor content that undermines the social order in Laos. Recently, the SSD has implemented a tool to check TCP packets from a select bank of words. The purpose of this tool is to search the TCP packets for sensitive words and close the link if a match occurs, thereby eliminating access to that link. A SSD regulation regarding 'Internet Safety for Preserving Social Order' has been pushed out to ISPs requiring them to maintain this tool and active sensitive word list in order to continue their license in Laos. This regulation has become known colloquially as the 'Lao Firewall'.

According to research conducted from a Canadian institute- The Citizen Lab, the TCP tool seems to run on the same protocol as the one used to enforce The Great Firewall in China, and was perhaps licensed to Laos and collaborated with at the permission of China. The Lao Firewall uses a variety of methods, employed by the SSD, to deny service to sensitive websites under directives of the Lao Government, including IP range banning, DNS spoofing and redirection, QOS filtering to block suspicious IP (working to combat VPN use), TCP reset attacks as described above, and MITM attacks to establish Lao approved security certs on Lao websites. After extensive research by Citizen Lab, they have determined that the following topics are being picked up by the sensitive list:

* Hmong independence websites

* Hmong insurgency content

* Content critical of party leadership

Additionally, they have determined the following apps and websites are no longer accessible in Laos:

* YouTube

* Facebook

* Wikipedia

* Reddit

* Whatsapp

* Telegram

* Signal

* X

* Wikipedia

* Hmong American Center

* Hmong Daily News

* Hmong Times

* Hmong TV Network

* NYT

* CNN

* The Guardian

* Voice of America

* DuckDuckGo

* Discord

* Washington Post

* Pornography-related websites

* Tumblr

* Pinterest

* LinkedIn

* Google

* Skype

* Snapchat

Interestingly, the following sites and services are still usable in Laos, and it is unknown why the government has yet to take action:

* Bing

* Netflix

* Instagram

* Steam

* Spotify

* Zoom

* GitHub

* Roblox

* DeviantArt

Consequently, usage of Bing in Laos has soared, as has Instagram. Other social media have begun becoming more prominent, such as VK and Weibo; services such as TikTok, WeChat, Bigo Live, and Spotify have also become more popular.

[Achieve Near-Universal 5G+ Mobile Internet and 100+ Mbps Wifi/Ethernet | Week 5 of 7 | Post 5 of 8]

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